By MartinA-1 on

Being someone who likes to copy and paste bits and bobs of information together for a scrapbook, I find drupal.org a bit awkward.

Using IE6 (no choice...) to look through forum postings, its not really possible to mark within all the boxes that have the rounded corners (comments..) e.g. on the home page the release anouncement for Drupal 4.6.2. Sometimes I find an open spot in the lower right corner to mark the whole frame.

I don't know what style feature that is (though curious to find out :) ) and whether that is intended or not. But somehow I cannot image that drupal.org wants to block copy & paste of their pages...

It would be nice if that could be changed.

Thanks, Martin

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moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

I have seen this behavior on sites that use CSS positioning. I think it is relative positioning that triggers this but I can't recall fully. Google will reveal the full story. It is an IE bug ... no, thats not intentional behavior from drupal.org

Dublin Drupaller’s picture

Dublin Drupaller commented

Hi Martin..

worth glancing at this thread which discusses that problem...I think it's a bug in IE...selecting and copying text in firefox is not a problem...

hope that helps

Dub

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate

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MartinA-1 commented

Ok, sigh... it might well be an IE6 problem, but unfortunately it makes drupal.org just a little bit more user unfriendly.

It's kind of the reverse logic of saying supawiz feature works in IE and IE is used by some_vast_majority_percentage of users, so why bother fix it.

Pages are there to be seen, so in the sense of accessability, to chuck in a buzzword, it just would be ever so nice if that would not happen.

For the most part things are fine anyhow. Looking at this post, my first text is fine for marking just the comments are the hassle.

Leaving the office now (...) and having another close look at firefox on drupal.org..

Thanks anyhow to both of you!
Martin

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MartinA-1 commented

For what its worth...

I had a more in depth look at the issue. Certainly not a xml problem - the pages coming from drupal.org don't have the xml header line.

It does however have to do with particular hacks in themes/bluebeach/style.css. Between the lines 511 - and 577 are the lines relevant for comments. They contain a hack to cope with the IE6 peekaboo bug (http://www.onestab.net/a/pie/explorer/peekaboo.html)
Some contain position: relative; and there is a _position: relative; These hacks are also in other locations for other things.

The above site describe another option of coping with the bug: use line-height: 1.2; (the number is immaterial) Using this, I can actually highlight text in IE6 and no bug appears.

Of course that was done in my localized copy and more in depth testing needs to be done, in any case the source of the problem are the position: relative entries which, in part I guess, are reactions to IE6 bugs.

cherio, Martin